Building and managing virtual private networks
Building and managing virtual private networks
The asymmetric NAT and its traversal method
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
Journal of Network and Systems Management
A scalable port forwarding for p2p-based wi-fi applications
WASA'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
One proposed method for mitigating the address shortage problem in IPv4 is to use network address translators (NATs) to allow address reuse. The basic idea is to transparently map a wide set of private network addresses and corresponding TCP/UDP ports to a small set of globally unique public network addresses and ports. NAT devices provide a way to handle IP address depletion incrementally, without changing hosts and routers, until more long-term approaches like IPv6 can be implemented. Existing Internet security protocols must be re-examined, however, to see how they function within this new network environment. We begin with a description of the four NAT environments and a discussion of their limitations. We then examine the relationships between NAT devices and popular Internet security protocols and applications at each layer of the TCP/IP stack to see if they can survive with NAT devices